Student Loan Attorney Rae Kaplan on nearly losing her husband to coronavirus, and her own miraculous recovery from it

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers emergency operations vehicle is parked outside the McCormick Place Convention Center Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Chicago. Inside the Illinois National Guard is assisting the Corps and FEMA in temporarily converting part of the convention center into an Alternate Care Facility (ACF) for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms who do not require intensive care. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Student loan attorney Rae Kaplan usually joins the show to share student loan advice. This time, she joins John Williams to talk about her husband’s COVID-19 diagnosis, near-death and eventual recovery. Then, she explains her own fast recovery process after catching the virus, too.

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